More than a million children in Lebanon have lost access to education due to fighting in the country. This was stated by the Deputy Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund, Ted Chaiban.
“1.2 million children are deprived of the opportunity to receive an education,” the Associated Press agency quotes him as saying. “Public schools are either impossible to reach, or they are damaged due to war, or are used as shelters.” According to Chaiban, in these conditions the country may face the risk of a “lost generation”.
He added that more than 400,000 children in Lebanon have been forced to flee their homes over the past three weeks, many of them in overcrowded temporary shelters. Although several private schools are still operating, Lebanon's public school system has been hit hard, it said. due to hostilities.
This negatively affects the education of not only Lebanese children, but also the children of the most vulnerable segments of the country's population, such as Palestinian and Syrian refugees. On September 23, Israel launched Operation Arrows of the North against the formations of the Shiite Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, during which it carried out massive strikes on the organization's military targets. The stated goal is to create safe conditions in the northern border areas of the Jewish state so that tens of thousands of residents can return there.
As a result of one of the Israeli strikes on September 27, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrullah was killed in Beirut. On the night of October 1, the Israeli army announced a ground operation in the border areas of southern Lebanon.
